A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Some strong contenders this month,from York I really enjoyed The Rook and Gaskill and The Waggon and Horsesalong with The Woolpack
From Winchester I was very impressed with The Fulflood Arms. Yesterday in London The Jerusalum Tavern really deliverd and later on Yesterday in Surbiton, I am always liking The Antelope but the pub that stole that particular day and the month a couple of enjoyable drinks in a top notch real boozer. BOTW is The Lamb.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
I'm struggling a bit this month but will go for this one. It's a suburban Holden's pub that is rather off the beaten track and didn't do any guest ales on my visit but it's a great example of an old school regional brewery tied house. Even if it had a guest I would probably have gone for the brewery beer anyway.
If you don't like any of the four Holden's beers you won't like it but I would happily return.
St Aldates Tavern
Oxford has never been the easiest of places to find a great real ale ,but with the sad passing of Far From the Madding Crowd ,this pub came up trumps and delivered a great session .
Just beat off the Old Joint Stock ,which will get another (longer) visit next time I'm in Brum and feeling flush.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
In a thin month for pub going,this pub:Lord Raglan was a welcome port of call on a rare evening excursion.A regular outlet for Goacher's,though this time I had a hopbomb from Westerham.This always was a well thought-of pub, though I never used it as often as I would have wished.
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"At that moment I would have given a kingdom, not for champagne or hock and soda, or hot coffee but for a glass of beer" Marquess Curzon of Kedlestone, Viceroy of India.
A trip to Hull earlier in the month provided some fine pubs but the best I found was The Minerva.
I liked the Beehive in St Albans.They have done it up for the better.
The trip to York provided some fine candidates, but in the end it came down to a choice of two. The Woolpack Inn versus The Rook & Gaskill. Barely a cigarette paper between them, I'm plumping for the Woolpack, because as Moby noted, its ordinariness is a major part of its appeal. The sort of place you could settle down for a session and imagine as a local.
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'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Thoroughly enjoyed the St Aldates Tavern as mentioned by Mr. Fastard above.
POTM Early Doors in Daventry. The first place for a reliable pint in town.